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Excellent article by @abstex on the embarrassment that is UK politics:
This is our parliament. These are the people we have elected to serve our interests, and they spend their lives wasting that opportunity by bellowing, growling and making animal noises at each other.
Zoe Williams:
But the paragraph that had me churning with impotent rage was this one: "Michael Philpott is a perfect parable for our age: his story shows the pervasiveness of evil born of welfare dependency. The trial spoke volumes about the sheer nastiness of the individuals involved. But it also lifted the lid on the bleak and often grotesque world of the welfare benefit scroungers – of whom there are not dozens, not hundreds, but tens of thousands in our country." It is vitriolic, illogical depersonalisation to ascribe the grotesqueness of one wild, unique crime to tens of thousands of people on benefits.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, the Harold Shipman case had nothing to do with middle England, middle-class professionals. Yet, somehow, the Mail and others have been able to bring social politics into the Philpott case.
Gove is simply the cleverest and ablest member of the Government (a high bar). It's like watching Ali box.
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) March 13, 2013
Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel we may have reached Peak Mensch.
Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
Jon Stewart:
"I am not a big proponent of the four-decade marriage age gap but if ever there was a situation when it would pay dividends ... it would be an ambush like that."
